More research debunking "Full moon crazies"


	More research debunking "Full moon crazies"

Oortcloud

7-31-2007 9:34 PM

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moon, luna, insane, lunar, full moon

Oortcloud says:

Picked this up off the www.badastronomy.com website

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8-4-2007 1:58 PM

mirzania

As a true doubter, I would love to agree on this. But our female greyhound goes absolutely loopy when there's a full moon. We've tried to say she is just loopy anyway, but she isn't; only for two or three days of the full moon when she's 'just not herself'. Strange!

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